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Anthropometric Studies on the Turkish Population - A Historical Review

A historical review of anthropometric studies conducted on Turkish children and adults is presented. In view of observed differences in growth status between children of different societies, the need for local reference standards and the methodology to be used for such studies have been stressed. Th...

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Autores principales: Neyzi, Olcay, Saka, Hatice Nurçin, Kurtoğlu, Selim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3628386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23419421
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/Jcrpe.957
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description A historical review of anthropometric studies conducted on Turkish children and adults is presented. In view of observed differences in growth status between children of different societies, the need for local reference standards and the methodology to be used for such studies have been stressed. The importance of local studies in reflecting the state of health and nutrition both in children and adults has also been mentioned. While a number of studies in children cited in this paper are designed to compare the growth of children from different socioeconomic levels, other studies aim to establish local reference data for Turkish children. While the historical studies in adults aim to define racial characteristics, the more recent studies aim to bring out nutritional characteristics with emphasis on increasing frequency of obesity. Conflict of interest:None declared.
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spelling pubmed-36283862013-04-19 Anthropometric Studies on the Turkish Population - A Historical Review Neyzi, Olcay Saka, Hatice Nurçin Kurtoğlu, Selim J Clin Res Pediatr Endocrinol Review A historical review of anthropometric studies conducted on Turkish children and adults is presented. In view of observed differences in growth status between children of different societies, the need for local reference standards and the methodology to be used for such studies have been stressed. The importance of local studies in reflecting the state of health and nutrition both in children and adults has also been mentioned. While a number of studies in children cited in this paper are designed to compare the growth of children from different socioeconomic levels, other studies aim to establish local reference data for Turkish children. While the historical studies in adults aim to define racial characteristics, the more recent studies aim to bring out nutritional characteristics with emphasis on increasing frequency of obesity. Conflict of interest:None declared. Galenos Publishing 2013-03 2013-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3628386/ /pubmed/23419421 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/Jcrpe.957 Text en © Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology, Published by Galenos Publishing. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Anthropometric Studies on the Turkish Population - A Historical Review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3628386/
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